Captured Angel 02 | Dan Fogelberg

Captured Angel

RIAA Certified - Platinum

Released September 1975 by Epic Records.

Aspen / These Days
Comes And Goes
Captured Angel
Old Tennessee
Next Time
Man In The Mirror
Below The Surface
Crow
The Last Nail

Credits

Dan Fogelberg - all guitars, keyboards, bass, percussion, banjo, arp, vocals except where otherwise noted.

Aspen/These Days

Russ Kunkel - drums
Strings arranged by Glenn Spreen

Comes And Goes

Russ Kunkel - percussion

Captured Angel

Russ Kunkel - drums
Norbert Putnam - bass

Old Tennessee
Russ Kunkel - drums
Norbert Putnam - bass

Next Time
Russ Kunkel - drums
Norbert Putnam - bass
Al Perkins - pedal steel
Strings arranged by Glenn Spreen

Man In The Mirror
Russ Kunkel - drums

Below The Surface

Russ Kunkel - drums

Crow

David Lindley - fiddle

The Last Nail

Russ Kunkel - drums
Strings arranged by Glenn Spreen

Produced by Dan Fogelberg for Full Moon Productions
Recorded at - Golden Voice Studios, South Pekin, Illinois; Caribou Ranch, Nederland, Colorado; The Record Plant, Los Angeles; The Record Plant, Sausalito

Lyrics

Aspen

Instrumental

These Days

I used to think of myself as a soldier

Holding his own against impossible odds

Badly outnumbered and caught in a crossfire of devils and gods

All I ever wanted to be was free

All I ever looked for was what was within my eyes to see

Oh, but these days are just like you and me

You used to be something I could believe in

How could you let me forsake myself so

You used to think of your life as a riddle with no answer known

All you ever wanted to be was free

All you ever looked for was what was within your sights to see

Oh, but these days are just like you and me

We used to live like there was no tomorrow

Tasting our trials a day at a time

Crying for justice and laughing at sorrow

Such innocent crimes

All we ever wanted to be was free

All we ever looked for was what was within our sights to see

Oh, but these days are just like you and me

Just like you and me

You know they're just like you and me

Comes And Goes

The woman's like the night

She comes and goes

She breaks my heart each day

And never knows

And the time I spend in sorrow

Will match the time I live

And the time that's left is

All I have to give

The woman's like an ivy on a pole

She wraps her twisted love around my soul

There will come a sudden winter

When she'll seek the warmth of day

And there'll come a time when she will come to stay

The woman's like the tide

She comes and goes

She knows the things that I can just suppose

And the time I spend in sorrow

Will match the time that she laughs

And the songs I sing cannot explain but half

Captured Angel

Found your heart and lost your lover

Lick your wounds and run for cover

Take your time,there'll be another

And don't make the same mistake twice

Unless you can pay the price

All the years that you spent in growing

End up one more line you're towing

Don't look now but your age is showing

And it's much too late to turn back

You better pull in the slack

(Chorus)

Captured Angel

Aching to make your break

Your freedom's at stake

You better fly now...

Fly now, fly now

While your wings are still young

Your cage door's been flung wide open...

And I'm hoping you see

That there's a place beside me

If you ever need it

Sold your dreams

For sweet salvation

Left with righteous indignation

Now it seems that you face starvation

And nourishment doesn't come cheap

You better go back to sleep

(Chorus)

Old Tennessee

End of October

The sleepy brown woods seem to

Nod down their heads to the Winter

Yellows and grays paint the sad skies today

And I wonder when you're coming home

Woke up one morning

The wind through the window

Reminded me winter was just 'round the bend

Somehow I just did not see it was coming

It took me by surprise again

(Chorus)

And I hear you're in San Francisco

Living with your sister who's a mother to be

And her husband's way down in Georgia

And I'm still in old Tennessee...

Wishing you'd come home to me

Life here is easy I'm sure you recall

How it's so warm and breezy

In the summer and the fall

But winter's upon me

And I've got no heat here

And I miss your fire so sweet

Dear I miss your fire so sweet

(Chorus)

End of October

The sleepy brown woods seem to

Nod down their heads to the winter

Yellows and gray paint the sad skies today

And I wonder when you're coming home

I wonder when you're coming home

Next Time

One too many days I've felt forgotten

And one too many nights I've slept alone

And every time I watch the fruit turn rotten

I tell myself I'll try a little harder next time

Oh, next time

Sacred are the ties that love entrusts us

Even if they fray before they bind

And I'm afraid I never did you justice

So I'm going to feel my love a little stronger

Make it last a little longer next time

Oh, next time

Well next time I ain't gonna fall on my knees

And come out of love empty-handed

But next time I'll be even harder to please

Oh when will the next time be

When will the next time be

Well next time I ain't gonna fall on my knees for nobody

And come out of love empty-handed

But next time I'll be even harder to please

Oh when will the next time be

When will the next time be

One too many days I've felt forgotten by you

And one too many nights I've slept alone

And every time I watch the fruit turn rotten

I tell myself I'll try a little harder

Play my cards a little smarter next time

Oh next time

Man In The Mirror

(Chorus)

The man in the mirror

He keeps getting nearer but I am not moving

The man in the back street is holding a track meet

But I will not run

Someplace inside you a seed has been born

You've got to watch it grow

Someplace inside you a river is waiting to flow

Will you let it go

Those voices you're hearing are never worth fearing

They're only inside you

They'll tempt you and taunt you

They'll help you and haunt you but don't try to hide

Sometimes the sun will be right at your shoulder

Helping you keep your stride

Sometimes you might have to give up a piece of your pride

Have you even tried

(Chorus)

Below The Surface

Some people tell you they're trapped by the distance

And can't get what they want most

They throw up a wall and then call for assistance

And make no attempt to get close

(Chorus)

Oh, I think you should know

You've got to go slow below the surface

And easy through the waves

You better go slow below the surface

And easy through the waves

You're running so fast that you can't find the past

And your future is wearing thin

Come from behind it's a matter of time

'Til you see where you've always been

(Chorus)

Some people tell you they're in trapped by the distance

And can't get what they want most

They throw up a wall and then call for assistance

And make no attempt to get close

Oh, I think you should know

You've better go slow below the surface

And easy through the waves

You better go slow below the surface

And easy through the waves

You know that your life must have a purpose

You better make a stand while you still can

Crow

Somewhere on a lonely muddy country road

I heard your song, crow, for the first time

Somewhere in the distance wicked, black and low

Made me feel as I was running from a crime

Some say she died of drowning in the river deep

Some say she died of a sudden start

Some say they found her swinging from my old man's tree

And some folks say she died of a broken heart

I can't believe they would pay men just to hunt me down

But silver coins to each one do they give

And by now there's a gallows standing in the town

And I wonder how much more I have to live

Somewhere on a lonely muddy country road

I heard your song, crow, for the last time

Somewhere in the distance wicked, black and low

Made me feel as I was running from a crime

Made me feel as I was running...from a crime

The Last Nail

I saw you running ahead of the crowd

I chased but never thought I'd catch you

You said you loved me but you had to be free and I let you

Why did I let you

We walked together through the gardens and graves

I watched you grow to be a woman

Living on promises that nobody gave to no one

They were given to no one

I started listening to the wind and the rain

You strained your ears but could hear nothing

One night I thought I heard them whisper my name

And I went running

I left a trail of footprints deep in the snow

I swore one day I would retrace them

But when I turned around I found that the wind had erased them

Now I'll never replace them

(Chorus)

Fly away, my sweet bird, over the land

Take life for all the freedom you can

But if you ever should need a man

Well, the offer still stands

I hear you've taken on a husband and child

And live somewhere in Pennsylvania

I never thought you'd ever sever the strings but I can't blame you none

So let the ashes fall and lay where they will

Just say that once you used to know me

One last time sing that old song we used to know

But this time sing

But this time sing a little more slowly

(Chorus)